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CompTIA SY0-401 Security+ Pop Quiz Online – Quiz #3

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In which of these cases would you be most likely to use tarpitting?
- IPsec encryption
- Mitigate a DDoS attack
- Spam filtering
- Wireless network authentication
- None of the above

What kind of auditing should be used to validate your user permissions?
- Usage auditing
- Operating system auditing
- Administrative auditing
- Privilege auditing
- Escalation auditing

Which of these database types is most associated with big data?
- NoSQL
- ODBC
- RDBMS
- SQL
- MySQL

Which of these would be the best description of PAP?
- Used for digital signatures
- An encrypted tunnel between two locations
- A symmetric encryption cipher
- Cleartext password exchange
- A symmetric encryption cipher

Which of these would not be considered OS hardening?
- Create an IPsec tunnel
- Disable unnecessary services
- Disable unnecessary accounts
- Require complex passwords
- Change the management interface credentials

Which of these would restrict the installation of unapproved applications on a mobile device?
- Storage segmentation
- Credential management
- Device encryption
- Geo-fencing
- MDM whitelisting

Which of these would be an advantage of PFS?
- Does not use a web server private key for encryption
- Tape backups are stored with improved encryption
- Increases the number of authentication factors
- Mitagates some types of social engineering attacks
- Vulnerabilities and attacks are identified in real-time over the network

Which of these would be categorized as a symmetric encryption cipher?
- MD5
- 3DES
- RSA
- Diffie-Hellman
- HMAC

What protocol type (TCP/UDP) and port number is commonly used for secure terminal communication?
- tcp/20
- tcp/21
- tcp/80
- tcp/22
- tcp/25

Which of these would be the most useful attack to gain access to a WPA2-PSK network?
- Perform a buffer overflow
- Exploit a cryptographic vulnerability
- Execute a database injection
- Perform a dictionary attack
- Implement a DDoS attack

What is the AIC Triad?
- Access, Identification, and Control
- Application, Interconnection, and Contingency
- Authentication, Initialization, and Challenge
- Availability, Integrity, and Confidentiality
- Accounting, Integrity, and Certification

Which of these would not be considered an authentication factor?
- Fingerprint
- Password
- GPS location
- OS installation USB flash
- Signature

How can malware perform activities on your computer that would not normally be possible with your OS permissions?
- Spoofing
- Transitive attack
- Man-in-the-Middle attack
- Privilege Escalation
- Denial-of-service attack

What of these systems would be most likely targeted on a SCADA network?
- SQL database server
- Point of sale terminal
- Wireless access point
- Manufacturing equipment
- Multifunction printer

Which of these would be most commonly associated with a protocol analyzer?
- Identify the sequence number of a traffic flow
- Filter ingress and egress traffic by port number or application type
- Restrict access to websites based on category or individual URL
- Validate the input of a browser-based application
- Identify a known vulnerability traversing the network

In which of these would you be most likely to use TACACS+?
- Route traffic across redundant network links
- Transfer documents between file servers
- Verify index settings on a SQL database
- Encrypt all network traffic sent between two sites
- Authenticate login credentials

Which of these would be the best example of a qualitative risk?
- The ERP software won’t receive updates because the annual maintenance fee has not been paid
- Upgrading the firewalls to support new encryption types is not in the budget
- The help desk staff is not properly trained on the new ERP software
- The fine for not storing data in encrypted form is $10,000 US per incident
- An Internet outage would lose $4,000 US per minute

Which of these would be the best description of Google Mail?
- Community Cloud
- IaaS
- SaaS
- PaaS
- Private Cloud

Which attack type can obtain personal information using an IVR?
- Watering hole attack
- Man-in-the-middle
- Vishing
- URL hijacking
- Spoofing

What attack type waits for a predefined event to occur?
- Rootkit
- SQL Injection
- Ransomware
- Logic bomb
- Man-in-the-middle

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